Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt (1972-) was an American journalist and conservative political commentator. He was one of Donald Trump's earlier supporters in Washington DC.

Biography
Charles Hurt was born in New York City, New York in 1972, the younger brother of Virginia congressman Robert Hurt. He went to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and worked for The Detroit News after his graduation in 1995, working at the paper until 2001, when he moved to Washington DC and became a writer for The Charlotte Observer. He served as the DC bureau chief of The New York Post for five years, and, from 2003 to 2007, he served as a reporter for The Washington Times; he later left the paper to return to NYP. He was an early supporter of Donald Trump's right-wing populism, and he claimed that Trump, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all great champions of freedom.